Nice pig, but 320 sounds a bit high.

OK..

Rango
With any high velocity cartridge I have found that the bonded core bullets like the Trophy Bonded Bearclaws do less meat damage than conventional bullets. Also I try to hit the pig just behind the front shoulder, that way I just break a rib or two. Very little meat loss.
A friend was having problems with pigs running off after being hit with his 7 Mag, and having to shoot them more than once. I had him switch to Trophy Bonded Bearclaws and his problem was solved.

That's a 120lb hog!

That's 120lbs of hide and head.

Nice hog. how many rounds of .223 did it take to get him up to 320?

I gotta jump in here on calling BS too. Here's a picture of my biggest hog to date. He weighed between 260 and 270, and he makes yours look plumb small.







Here's one that weighed about 120 or 130. Now we're talking a good comparison.







You've got a fine lookin' piggie there, and I don't want to knock that, but he ain't no 300 pounder. Not trying to be antagonistic, just want to call your bluff. Sorry.

Now, now fellas! Every man's got a right to claim he has a 10" schlong, caught a 12 pound bass, and killed a 300 pound pig. He just shouldn't make the mistake of posting a picture of any of them, lest his claims be doubted.

Well, I for one certainly don't want to see ANY pictures of that 10 inches!!!

Rewmember boys, "A man who don't lie aint got nuthin to say."

(Bet y'all are hell around camp. )

Any-who. I guess I'll be needing some instruction as to how to gage the size and weight of these beasties.

(And no Stonecreek, I aint talking about my schlong! )

So, put your calibrated eye on this little piggie. Taken this past weekend out in Baylor Co.

What's your take?
How big??



Shoot Stright

225 lbs. But you guys are damn lucky to have a big game animal that is tasty, wily, and legal to hunt year round.

I can't see the first picture but the last one is a 160# hog.

Pigs:
a face only a hunter could love.

125-145... but it's hard to tell when they are hanging...

jeffe

You guys that shoot a lot of pigs should buy one of those "Big Buck Scales" and just weigh your pigs. Just be sure and get the 300 pound model.

How does that .223 work on hogs?

Great. Rarely need more than one or two rounds to drop them.

I've found the .223 surprisingly effective on even fairly large hogs (you know, the 300 pounders, measured 8-ounces to the pound). Of course, I've also found the .223 very effective on whitetails, but am assured by dozens of arm-chair experts that all of the deer I've seen dropped with one shot from .22 centerfires are figments of my imagination, and that I have simply purged from my memory all of those which ran blissfully away with multiple wounds in otherwise lethal places when shot with the same rounds.

The .22 centerfire will get it done, I just prefer a little more "insurance". The guide my family has hunted with the past 4-5 years uses a .22 Hornet. He puts the bullet where it needs to go, and that's all folks.

I like the .44mag, personally.

I have seen first hand the effectiveness of a 223 on pigs and deer. I would rather have a well shot hog with a 223 than a gut shot one with a 375 H&H...
When I was a boy my Dad took in an old hunting buddy who was long in years. I remember the old gentleman was born in 1890 and was in WWI. He grew up around Lampassas Texas and still had the rifle he hunted deer with as a young man and swore it was deadly on deer...Get ready guys...It was a Remington pump in 25-20.
Good luck and good shooting,
Eterry

This one weighs 265 by our best calculation. Popped him with the AR-15 shown shooting 50 gr. Vmaxes. Hit him through the ear flap at 130 yards and down he went. I gave him another in the same spot just to make sure he heard me the first time. Burleson County Texas

I dropped a 150 wild boar with a 55 grain softpoint .223 The pig went 15 feet. I met a guy(dont know very well) that brags shot many with 60 grain nosler...a couple over 225 lbs that went nowhere. I think with the right shot its good pig and deer gun..just has has no knockdown power.

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Originally posted by TXpitdog:
Nice pig, but 320 sounds a bit high.

What pig are we talking about here?

I don't see anything on this string that will go 320 lbs. However, 320 lb hogs are not uncommon,the last two DRSS hunts at 4K, Brady, Texas, produced a 289 lb, and a 330 lb hog, weighed. The 289 pounder was killed by screen name Mississippian,in January, and the 330 pounder was killed by screen name 577 Nitro Express! In January we took 14 hogs, and they averaged about 125 lbs-15o lbs.with Mississippian's 289 pounder the largest. In June we took 13 hogs, and the average was 125lbs, with Paul's 330 lb hog as the largest. I the June hunt, I turned down a sow that would have gone well over 300lbs. I turned her down because she was trailing 8 little ones. She had three hogs running with her at were grown, and I popped two of them with a Merkel S/S double rifle, 9.3X74R, with a double tapp,(a right, and left, pop pop) running, at about 40 yds. One , a sow, weighed 120 lbs, and the smaller boar weighed 89 lbs,perfect makeings for Bar-B-Q !

Well, I haven't caught a 12 lb bass, and I've never shot a 300 lb pig ...

Well, I've caught a 14 pound bass, killed a couple of hogs over 300, but I'm damned if I'm going to cut 2 inches off.......

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Originally posted by MacD37:

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Originally posted by TXpitdog:
Nice pig, but 320 sounds a bit high.

What pig are we talking about here?

Since this is a 2004 thread I think some things are missing.

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Originally posted by Charles_Helm:

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Originally posted by MacD37:

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Originally posted by TXpitdog:
Nice pig, but 320 sounds a bit high.

What pig are we talking about here?

Since this is a 2004 thread I think some things are missing.

Thanks Charles, it never dawned on me to look at the date of the posts. I went back and modified my earlier post, not that it makes any difference to the origenal posters! Charles, you need to join us at the next DRSS hunt/ get together, they're fun!

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Charles, you need to join us at the next DRSS hunt/ get together, they're fun!

I certainly enjoy the reports. I have been squandering my hunting money on Africa though.

Maybe the next one will be when it is not too hot or too icy -- sounds like something from Goldilocks and the Three Bears!

Here's a true 320 hog as confirmed by the scale and witnessed by a number of posters here on AR whom I hunted with at the DRSS hunt. (Mac, it could have gone 330, but the scale bottomed out at 300 lbs and the line was below that mark.)



This is the hog I harvest at the DRSS shoot this past weekend (June 15 to 18, 2007.) I shot it with a Winchester Model 70 Super Express, .375 H&H Magnum with 260 grains Vital Shock Bullets.

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This is the hog I harvest at the DRSS shoot this past weekend (June 15 to 18, 2007.) I shot it with a Winchester Model 70 Super Express, .375 H&H Magnum with 260 grains Vital Shock Bullets.

With only one barrel...

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This is the hog I harvest at the DRSS shoot this past weekend (June 15 to 18, 2007.) I shot it with a Winchester Model 70 Super Express, .375 H&H Magnum with 260 grains Vital Shock Bullets.



With only one barrel...

Yep! Just sold my other double and haven't found a replacement yet. My old man was hunting with the .577 NE, so I humped good old bolt trash that evening...